O Captain! My Captain! (Heather Soderling)

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Editor: Heather Soderling (submitted 2014-10-23).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 2.83 MB   Copyright: CC BY NC SA

Edition notes: A cappella, with a tom or similar low drum accompaniment.

General Information

Title: O Captain! My Captain!
Composer: Heather Soderling
Lyricist: Walt Whitman

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SSAA

Genre: Secular, Ode

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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External websites: http://heatherkgraves.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/o-captain-my-captain-ssaa/

Original text and translations

English text 1  Oh Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won; The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! O heart! O heart! Bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. 2  O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up for you the flag is flung, for you the bugle trills; For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths, for you the shores a-crowding; For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head; It is some dream that on the deck, You’ve fallen cold and dead. 3  My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will; The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done; From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won; Exalt O shores, and ring O bells! But I with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.